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Daily Archives: October 1, 2025

Research Highlight: Optimizing Text for an Individual’s Visual System: The Contribution of Visual Crowding to Reading Difficulties. Sung Jun Joo, Alex L. White, Douglas J. Strodtman, & Jason D. Yeatman, 24 April 2018

The Impact of Visual Crowding on Reading

Research and PapersBy Readability MattersOctober 1, 2025

Increasing Text Spacing Reduces Visual Crowding and Supports Readers   Visual crowding refers to the disruption in object recognition that occurs in clutter. In the case of reading, it is the phenomenon where the recognition of a target letter is impaired by the presence of adjacent letters. This effect can make identifying letters in a…

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